From: Orest Poluch, LCBO Product Consultant and Event Organizer

UPCOMING WINE CHALLENGE

INVITATION

Greetings Riesling-lovers,

We would like to invite you to come out to Guelph and partake in our…

6th-Annual Ontario Consumers’ Riesling Challenge

(O.C.R.C. 2012)

A unique, Customer – dedicated event.

These are the wineries and the wines to be featured in  2012 Ontario Consumers Riesling Challenge.

SEE BELOW THIS LIST FOR ALL THE DETAILS…

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1.   COLANERI ESTATE WINERY

2010 STELLUCHA #279778

2.   FEATHERSTONE ESTATE WINERY & VINEYARD            

      2011 BLACK SHEEP  #80234

3.   FIELDING ESTATE WINERY                                                        

      2010 RIESLING  #251439

4.   FLAT ROCK CELLARS                                                     

     2009 #43281

2009 RESERVE #231266

5.   GOOD EARTH WINERY

2009 RIESLING MEDIUM DRY # 268466

6.   HINTERBROOK

2010 RIESLING #270512

7.  MALIVOIRE WINE COMPANY LTD.

2010 RIESLING # 277483

8.   G. MARQUIS VINEYARDS

      THE RED LINE 2010 RIESLING #274670

9.   MEGALOMANIAC     

2011 NARSISSIST  #67587

10. PONDVIEW ESTATE WINERY

2010 RIESLING #271148

11. ROSEWOOD ESTATES WINERY                            

      2009 NATALIE’S SÜSSRESERVE #258806

12. SUE-ANN STAFF ESTATE WINERY                        

      2008 SEMI-DRY RIESLING #258632

13. THIRTEENTH STREET WINERY                   

       2010 JUNE’S VINEYARD #147512

2010 OLD VINES #272617

14. THIRTY BENCH

      2010 RIESLING #24133


This annual event is held at LCBO store #495

(615 Scottsdale Drive, Guelph, On),

Saturday, May 26, 2012.

From noon to 4 PM.

Being VINTAGES release day, we anticipate an enthusiastic customer turnout.

Wineries will be featuring multiple styles of Riesling, from dry and off – dry.

Homemade trophies will be awarded for the winner in each of the two categories, dry and off-dry.

Local food purveyors involved:

Chartelli’s Fine Cheeses, (Local Cheese),

Quican Inc.(With his own line of artisan breads Quentessentials.)

Delta Guelph Hotel ( Local matching fare),

and Planet Bean (100% Organic, Fair Trade coffee). 

and sparkling water.

  

Participating customers will pay a $10 admission fee.

This gets you four tasting tickets.  

Charitable Partnership

The collected admission goes directly to Bracelet of Hope

(Canadian Registered Charitable number 837390947RR0001) Braceletofhope.ca

Participating consumer will also receive a bracelet, which symbolize hope; one country reaching out to another and both transformed by the experience. Bracelet of Hope is an example of international cooperation, a project aimed to assist Lesotho in overcoming its AIDS pandemic.

Dr. Anne-Marie Zajdlik, recipient of the Order of Ontario, an HIV physician in Guelph, Ontario co-ordinates the Bracelet of Hope project. In 2005, she founded and now directs the Masai Centre for Local, Regional and Global Health, in response to the growing numbers of HIV/AIDS patients in the Guelph area. She is a regional HIV specialist.

Thanks for your time and efforts going forward.

Cheers,

Orest Poluch

Orest Poluch

Product Consultant

2011-2012

VQA Promoter of the Year

LCBO # 495

615 Scottsdale Drive

Guelph, Ontario

N1G 3P4